Adjustable grate for stoves



(iro Model.) I i W. H. H. SPULDING. l

ADJUSTABLE GRATB FR STOVES.

Patented Jan. 24, 1888.v

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Suva/Wou n WEHHi-E'JUZUZ@ n UNITED STATES lPATENT OFFICE WILLIAM H. H.sPAULDING, or PERU, INDIANA.

ADJUSTABLE eRATi-z Foa sTovEs'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 376,158, dated anuaryv24, 1888.

Appnmtion filed May 11, Iss?.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM H. H. SPAULD- ING, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Peru, in the county of Miami and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new c and useful Improvements in AdjustableGrates for Stoves, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the ac-V companying drawings.

My invention relates to adjustable grates for stoves; and it has for itsobject to provide a grate which, while beingcapable of use Vwith smallstoves, may be readily adjusted 'to fit stoves of larger size. y

The invention consists in a certain novel construction and arrangementof parts, which will iirst be described in connection with the Yaccompanying drawings, and then pointed. out

in the claims. 'f zo Figure 1 of the drawings is a topjplan View of myimproved grate with one extension-plate removed. Fig. 2 is a plan Viewof lone of thev extension-plates. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of thegrate, looking in the direction of the' arrow. y

A represents the grate. It is cast in one piece of a length to suitstoves of small size, and has screw-holes formed` in each end, asat h,for the attachment of extension-plates, hereinafter described, only oneof said holes, however, being seen.

In order to lengthen the grate to suit stoves of larger size, I employtwo extension-plates, B C, one at each end of the grate. These platesare formed alike, except that the vertical slots (hereinafter described)are in oppo-L site ends of the respective plates. Each extension-plateis formed with a central web, d, in which there is alongitudinal slot,l, extending the Whole length of the plate between its i end bars. v Avertical slot, o, is formed in the left-hand bar of plate B, and a like.slot is' formed in the right-hand bar of plate C. 'Each with a nut, t,as seen in Fig. 3.

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of the extension-plates hasa leg, L, c ast on its outer bar, to serve asa support for the grat-e. l

Plates B and C are adj ustably secured to the grate by means ofscrew-bolts b, passing through the longitudinal slots in the plates andthe holes hin the grate, and providedI with nuts m Y 5c' H representsthe fastening-hook (one for each plate) adj ustably secured to the plateby a screw-bolt, s, passing through the hook andA the Vertical slot, andVprovidedatits lower endI It will be readilyy seen on inspection of thedrawings that the grate can be adjusted to fit stoves of different sizesby simplyadjusting the extension-plates on the grate, and also f thatthe` hooks lcan be so adj usted as to engagev with the lugs on the stovein whatever position Y' the lugs are likely to be located. f l ,A

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isj w',

l.y The combination, with agrate constructedk .as described, of twoextension-plates, one ad`v justably attachedr to each end of the grate,and; ,Y two fasteninghooks, one adjustably attached to eachextension-plate, the said plates being each formed with a longitudinalslot and avertical slot, substantially as described, and for `rthepurposes stated.

2. The extension-plates B C, each having a centrallongitudinally-slotted web, as d, a vertical slot, as v, and asupporting-leg, as and the hooks H, when combined with each other andWith the grate A in the manner. above set forth.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature 8o' presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ILH.v sPAULDING.

Witnesses;

JAMES M. BROWN, No'rcr N. ANTRIM.

